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Food
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Nando’s Nation: Britain’s Love Affair With Chicken
12 Mar 2013 by Gabi October / No Comments
Apparently Britain’s elite, celebrities and Olympic Gold medalists choose Nando’s. The first woman to win a gold medal for boxing, Nicola Adams celebrated at the popular food restaurant. And footballers earning £25 000 (R330 000) a week, choose Nando’s as their after training meal of choice, not to mention Rihanna, Britney Spears and Lewis Hamilton. In [...]
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Use Google Maps To See Where Rich And Poor People Live In South Africa
11 Mar 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
We spotted an article on BusinessInsider about a Reddit post which showed a search for high and low end retailers, as a way to define a city’s rich and poor areas. We did the same thing, pitting Woolworths against Shoprite. Here are the results:
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Locusts Descend On Egypt And Israel In Plague Of Biblical Proportions [VIDEO]
08 Mar 2013 by Gabi October / No Comments
Okay, so we probably went for the low hanging fruit on that headline. Locust plagues have swarmed Egypt, southern Israel and Gaza. The plague has struck three weeks before the Jewish Passover holiday that recounts the deadly plagues of Exodus – one of which is a plague of locusts, according to scripture. Farmers in the affected [...]
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‘Hunting The Black Diamond’ – Truffle Hunting In Provence
05 Mar 2013 by Simon Burrow / No Comments
Apart from the history, the buildings, the food, the wine, the beauty and the quirky people, and just when you thought that you had seen everything, Provence keeps popping up with something unique and memorable. Truffle-hunting!
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“The Fast Diet” – Eat 5 Days, Fast For 2
05 Mar 2013 by Gabi October / 3 Comments
A new diet which is all the craze in the UK involves not eating at all. “The Fast Diet” was published in January, and has been at the top of the best seller book list on Amazon’s British site for much of the time since then. According to the founder of Short Books publishing house, Rebecca [...]
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Why Paris Restaurants Are Putting As Much Horse As They Can On Their Menus
04 Mar 2013 by Gabi October / 2 Comments
The French are applauding the recent outbreak of horse meat in beef-labelled products. With horse meat consumption showing a steady decline over the last three decades, France has translated the scandal into a trend. There are currently 750 butchers in the country, with 17% of the population claiming to have eaten horse meat. 11 000 [...]
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R80 For Two Tickets To Pick & Pay Taste Of Cape Town Festival – Get Your Feast On! (50% OFF)
04 Mar 2013 by Aramat Broccoly / 2 Comments
Food, food, food. Everyone loves it, no one can get enough of it. The Tast of Cape Town Festival is one of the most scrumptious get togethers on our local culinary map, and you can experience it for less, thanks to this rad deal. Two tickets to the Pick & Pay Taste of Cape Town Festival at the [...]
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10 Insanely Expensive Burgers That Might Be Worth Paying For
28 Feb 2013 by Aramat Broccoly / 2 Comments
Do you love burgers? Have you ever eaten a burger that you would pay R5 000 for? No? Read on, and you might find a meat sandwich to convince you otherwise. 10. Named after the Italian composer, Rossini, this burger is music to your mouth. Found in San Francisco, Las Vegas and Saint Louis, the [...]
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“Do You Want To Live Forever?!” – Mediterranean Diet Reduces Risks Of Heart Disease
26 Feb 2013 by Aramat Broccoly / No Comments
If you don’t know about the Mediterranean diet this is it in short. It’s a modern and nutritional diet based on the use of traditional foods from southern Italy, Greece and Spain. According to proponents of the diet, adding high content of olive oils, vegetables, fruits and even wine to your daily consumption helps to [...]
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Shock Study: Forget The Horse Meat Scandal – We’ve Got Donkey In Our SA Mince!
26 Feb 2013 by silverstreak / 2 Comments
Stellenbosch University’s meat scientists have been busy little bodies, conducting a thorough study of commercially-available meat products in the wake of an international scandal around the presence of delicious horse meat in European meat products not labelled “horse meat”.
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Pieces Of Glass Found In Kellogg’s Special K Cereal
21 Feb 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
We’ve heard stories of cartilage and beaks turning up in chicken dishes, which kind of makes sense, given that the foreign objects are linked to the product itself. But glass? In cereal? That’s what they’re dealing with right now in the US.
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SA’s Hellmann’s Mayonnaise Importer Responds To Consumer Outcry
16 Jan 2013 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
You would have picked up by now (read here) that a large portion of SA’s upwardly mobile premium-brand consumers are in a tizz over the fact that Hellmann’s mayonnaise has pretty much disappeared from shelves around the country. Well here is the official response:
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[Updated] The Mysterious Disappearance Of Hellmann’s Mayonnaise From SA Shelves
15 Jan 2013 by Seth Rotherham / 10 Comments
The big question is, what has happened to Hellman’s Mayonnaise? Have they gone out of business? Suddenly the premium brand of mayo is hard to find – and we’re not the only people that think so. Look at this:
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Robertson’s Spices With No Salt & Vinegar – What Is The Point?
14 Jan 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
So not only has the ‘Continental Deli’ in Camps Bay stopped stocking Carmel gherkins, but they have also decided not to stock the Salt & Vinegar flavour Robertson’s spices. Why taunt us by having such a limited selection?
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The World Wastes Nearly Half Its Food
11 Jan 2013 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
This should serve as a wake up call to everyone, but it probably won’t, and the human race will continue to waste vast amounts of food.
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Disgusting: Pick n Pay Is Now Selling “Ass Yoghurt”
11 Dec 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 8 Comments
It’s incredible what retailers are diversifying into these days, but sometimes that is what it takes to stand out. Pick ‘n Pay obviously think that ‘Ass Yoghurt’ will help their efforts against Checkers.
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“Tastes Like Roids” – Europe Won’t Eat USA’s Toxic Horse Meat
11 Dec 2012 by silverstreak / 1 Comment
Here’s the pretext: retired race horses – and horses from similarly competitive backgrounds – are routinely carted from the United States to Canada or Mexico, where they are slaughtered, processed, and shipped to France (and other European countries) for human consumption. This is not a new phenomenon. It has been going on for about as [...]
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Nederburg’s Summer Pop Up “Red Table” Restaurant Is Tres Cool
07 Dec 2012 by silverstreak / 1 Comment
Nederburg has created a novel restaurant for the summer, open from Wednesday to Sunday until the end of April. Called the Red Table, it offers locally-sourced fresh, light bistro-style food in a relaxed and gesellige atmosphere. The menu has been devised to match the farm’s rich and varied range of award-winning wines. What makes it [...]
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Wall Street Journal Includes 2oceansvibe Stunt In ‘PHOTOS OF THE YEAR 2012′ Feature
07 Dec 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
The Wall Street Journal editors picked “the best photos of the year – representing the key moments and defining images of the news in 2012.” They included our Clifton Trawler Butlers Pizza Stunt we did in May. Click through for the pic + video.
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“I’ll Have Heart Disease With That” – How Fast Food Is Killing You
27 Nov 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
If you’re eating on the go, you’re planning for a short life. Professor Patrick Bouic was in the 2oceansvibe Radio studio last week on the Just Josie Show, to discuss the very real health threats that fast food poses to us, and our kids. Click through for top tips on how to side step heart disease.
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Eat Out Magazine Reveals SA’s Top 10 Restaurants For 2012
26 Nov 2012 by Steyn du Toit / 1 Comment
The Eat Out DStv Food Network Restaurant Awards took place in the grand ballroom at the Westin in Cape Town last night. Apart from the prestigious Restaurant of the Year award, several other accolades were also dished out, including Chef of the Year, Best Steakhouse, and the Service Excellence Award.
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Cadbury Invents Nearly Unmeltable Chocolate
26 Nov 2012 by Bearded Wiseman / No Comments
Likely to be launched in time with the British summer (British warmer rainy season), Cadbury’s has announced an awesome invention: chocolate that will be able to withstand 40C temperatures for three hours before melting.
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UK’s Esquire Magazine Gives 2oceansvibe A Mention
31 Oct 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
It’s not every day one cracks a mention in Esquire magazine. But it turns out their travel journo was recently in Cape Town and uncovered a few gems – not least of which is the 2oceansvibe cocktail at Caprice!
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Global Bacon Shortage “Unavoidable” In 2013
25 Sep 2012 by Simon Gerber / No Comments
It’s time to start getting a little worried, gang. Soon that Saturday morning English breakfast is going to be missing its most vital ingredient, and your bacon and egg roll will become nothing more than just an egg roll. It’s coming – the porkpocalypse.
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